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Under the terms of the deal, Crown Castle will buy the rights to run 9,100 towers for an average lease of 28 years, with the right to acquire the towers outright from AT&T in the future for about $4.2 billion. Crown Castle will also buy about 600...

October 20, 2013, Sunday

The deal comes as T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, tries to find its way in the aftermath of AT&T's failed $39 billion bid for the American subsidiary, which fell apart amid opposition from United States regulators.

September 28, 2012, Friday

Amid a flurry of deals on Friday, Crown Castle, a mobile tower operator, has agreed to buy NextG Networks for $1.0 billion in cash. NextG, which helps American wireless carriers improve their coverage through its network of outdoor antenna systems,...

December 16, 2011, Friday

A cellphone tower company, the Crown Castle International Corporation, agreed yesterday to buy a smaller rival, Global Signal, for $4 billion in cash and stock, creating a company with more than 24,000 wireless sites. Including the assumption of $1.8...

October 7, 2006, Saturday

The country's main gas and power utility, National Grid Transco, will buy the British wireless broadcast tower business of Crown Castle International Inc. for £1.1 billion ($2 billion), the companies said. The deal triples NGT's network of towers...

June 29, 2004, Tuesday

The Crown Castle International Corporation, an operator of communication towers, said yesterday that the French phone company France Telecom had agreed to sell 24.9 million Crown Castle shares for $693.1 million in a public offering on Thursday....

June 6, 2000, Tuesday

France Telecom said yesterday that it would sell its $1.3 billion interest in Crown Castle International to buy a stake in a cable company. France Telecom must sell its 20 percent stake in Crown Castle, a provider of wireless services, to get...

May 12, 2000, Friday

Crown Castle International, a provider of communication sites and wireless network services, said yesterday that its Crown Castle Australia unit had agreed to buy 700 wireless communications towers from Cable and Wireless Optus of Australia for $135...

March 10, 2000, Friday

Metricom Inc., a provider of wireless Internet services, agreed yesterday to rent space on 500 communication towers from the Crown Castle International Corporation for as much as $126 million over 10 years as it prepares to offer its high-speed data...

October 20, 1999, Wednesday

The BellSouth Corporation, the regional telephone company based in Atlanta, said yesterday that it had agreed to sublease all unused space on its 773 communications towers to the Crown Castle International Corporation for $317 million. Crown Castle,...